Hi everyone,
I am about to start a two years long project with requires monthly travel en route WAW-ATL and I have a puzzle to solve:
(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
- upgrades on travel
- good award redemption rates
- better award access
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class?
123036 miles: all BA metal, CE+CW
~50000 miles: everything else, mostly economy, no real pattern here.
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
For work: business. For pleasure: economy.
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Airline can be freely chosen, for this particular project it will be BA biz (preferred) or KL/AF/DL biz (backup option).
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
In this case: WAW-LHR-ATL on BA (strongly preferred)
Alternative: WAW-AMS/CDG-ATL on KL/AF/DL (only when necessary)
I travel to USA & Canada once-twice per year for vacation.
(6) What is your home airport?
WAW: Warsaw, Poland
(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
BAEC Bronze with ~60k Avios.
(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
For the purpose of this calculation: BA. Most common in general: LO.
At the moment I am considering the following options:
a) credit everything to BAEC. Upside: including bonuses it should result in about 500k Avios per year, with 4 Upgrade vouchers yearly when 2.5k & 3.5k TP thresholds are met.
b) credit to BAEC until Gold is reached, then start crediting everything to Alaska Airlines MVP. They seem to have generous rates for BA CW and award-redemption partnership with various airlines across the globe. Also, when I am "forced" to use KL/AF/DL instead of regular BA then I can credit miles to AS MVP account. I enjoy spending vacation in North America, so AS awards & upgrades can come pretty handy.
c) credit to BAEC until Gold is reached, then switch to another OW program?
No idea which one could be better.
- there are no reasonable WAW-ATL connections on *A carriers
- all credit card related factors can be dismissed upfront.
I will appreciate any help and suggestions.